Alvastra pile dwelling

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Excavation documentation

We are spending the summer going through everything that has been produced and editing texts so that they can be published on the digital platform which we hope to launch this autumn. Very embarrassingly, when going through all the material stored...

If you wanted to cut out a block of peat containing archaeological remains and place it in a wooden box for transport to a museum for excavation indoors, how would you do it? Would you cut out the block, make a wooden box of the correct size and...

Compiled report In Sweden all archaeological finds belong to the state. The state can decide to transfer the ownership of archaeological finds from the state to another institution if that institution is capable of preserving archaeological...

Textile fragment during excavation. Photo: Nathalie Hinders, SHMM We already know that the Dags mosse mire was not only used during the Middle Neolithic. The material traces of these post Stone Age activities are by no means comprehensive but they...

When Mats P. Malmer started new excavations at the Alvastra Pile Dwelling between the year 1976 and 1980 the excavation area was divided up into four trenches – the Eastern, the Western, the Middle and the Investigation trenches. Investigations in...

Mats Malmer excavating the Eastern Trench at Alvastra pile dwelling. Photo: Stockholm University. Mats Malmer directed the excavations at the pile dwelling in 1976-1980. At the time he was professor of archaeology at the University of...

Fig. 1. The peat block before investigation. Photo Hilde Skogstad, SHM Introduction On 15 July 1930 a block of peat was cut out of Dagsmosse mire and put into a wooden box with a nailed on lid. Apart from the date (in fact two dates occur on the...

The prehistoric causeway as it enters the wooden platform from the southeast. Illustration: Mats Gilstring The causeway as it is reconstructed today. Photo: Nathalie Dimc, SHMM We have now created an adress and an introductory text for what will...

Photograph: Stockholm University For technical reasons the photograph that introduces our blog has been severely curtailed. Here is the full version of the picture taken during the excavations from 1976 to 1980. It shows all four trenches that were...